Disc I[Part I: Godfrey's Cordial - An ORphan's Life]01. Sapari02. From Broken Vessels03. Bereft In The Abyss04. The Path Part 1 - Treading Through Darkness05. The Path Part 2 - The Pilgrimage To Or Shalem06. Olat Ha'tamid

After a six-years-long wait, Orphaned Land are finally back. Don't be fooled by the quite classical (well, for Orphaned Land) opener "Sapari", the rest of the album is clearly not as straightforward!
And, just like their previous album Mabool, TNEWOORW (shorter this way, eh?) is a concept album. This one is quite a biblical metaphor, telling us about the spiritual journey of one man that becomes a warrior of Light. Oh, and 'Or' in Hebrew means light, hence the 'ORWarrior' in the album's title.

Released one month ago, it hasn't leaved my CD played (or my Ipod) since.
It's been six long years since Orphaned Land offered us the wonderful Mabool. Did they do better? I honestly can't say... But who cares? Both are awesome masterpieces of metal, extreme, folk, prog, melody, all of that and more.
So, come abroad in this musical journey, following a soul lost in darkness that becomes a warrior of light...
Definitely an album to be experienced, not merely listened to.

This band would be way better without the Arabic stuff. It's cool but I don't know ><
I hate to criticize this album because they put so much work into it and in many ways it's a work of art.

But I just can't say I like it or like listening to it, and somehow as someone said it feels PRETENTIOUS. what the hell.

I think the problem of this album is that they "put so much work into it"... too much works kills inspiration and originality. Being an Arab, I love to see Arabic music incorporated into metal and Orphaned Land is the band which succeeded to do that in 3 albums. But this time the Arabic stuff doesn't fit the music... I listened several times to this album but didn't manage to get into it... It's unlike Mabool... I'm so much disappointed with my one of fav. bands....

This band would be way better without the Arabic stuff. It's cool but I don't know ><
I hate to criticize this album because they put so much work into it and in many ways it's a work of art.

But I just can't say I like it or like listening to it, and somehow as someone said it feels PRETENTIOUS. what the hell.

I think the problem of this album is that they "put so much work into it"... too much works kills inspiration and originality. Being an Arab, I love to see Arabic music incorporated into metal and Orphaned Land is the band which succeeded to do that in 3 albums. But this time the Arabic stuff doesn't fit the music... I listened several times to this album but didn't manage to get into it... It's unlike Mabool... I'm so much disappointed with my one of fav. bands....

I agree with you. I can't get into the music of this album at all. Good musicians who wanted too much and at the end they spoiled everything!

This band would be way better without the Arabic stuff. It's cool but I don't know ><
I hate to criticize this album because they put so much work into it and in many ways it's a work of art.

But I just can't say I like it or like listening to it, and somehow as someone said it feels PRETENTIOUS. what the hell.

I think the problem of this album is that they "put so much work into it"... too much works kills inspiration and originality. Being an Arab, I love to see Arabic music incorporated into metal and Orphaned Land is the band which succeeded to do that in 3 albums. But this time the Arabic stuff doesn't fit the music... I listened several times to this album but didn't manage to get into it... It's unlike Mabool... I'm so much disappointed with my one of fav. bands....

I agree with you. I can't get into the music of this album at all. Good musicians who wanted too much and at the end they spoiled everything!

Fully agreed...they wanted all and they ended up with nothing special ,,,there are a lot songs that if they hadn't added it would be better...tey lost their focus in this one

I'm listening to it for the *insert some number here*-th time and I've realized that it's indeed good... too good for me. It lacks catchy melodies (unlike "Mabool") and it's more complicated so the listener has to think of the music and ATM I don't feel like thinking of it. Too bad, I really like the band.

This album grew on me A LOT. This album is very, very ambitious. I think the only thing I don't like about it is that the production gives it a less "raw" aesthetic that Mabool had. Still, this is a potential classic we have on our hands folks. People are gonna look back on this band and at least their last two releases to date, and think about how brilliant this stuff is. Mark my words. This is what progressive music is all about.

Perhaps I just don't get it, but I didn't really like this album much at all.

I'm with you there. I like the overall idea & sound of it, but the whole thing just turned out pretty boring by the 3rd or 4th song.

----"I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck."
- George Carlin

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Negative things:

-The only thing that killed the Oriental\Arabian tones, is that they added too much slowly instrumental parts\solos.

-I really don't know what Steven Wilson did with the band, but i expected something more like Orphaned Land not something more similar to Opeth.

-They used too much acoustic guitar, i wish that they replaced it with Oud in some parts.

-I didn't like the story of this album "Battle between light and darkness", the story of "Mabool" was better "Story of three Angels, representing the divide of the Abrahamic religion into three main streams: Judaism, Islam and Christianity" that was Epic.

Positive things:

-I enjoyed the Jewish\Arabic lyrics.

-Kobi's clean voice was awesome but the songs were weak.

-The chick voice was amazing i really enjoyed her parts, what's her name?

-Favorite songs: Olat Ha'tamid, Sapari.

-In the first 30 seconds of the song "The Path Part 2 - The Pilgrimage To Or Shalem" you can hear roaches sound, that was Trve\Epic, because we sure do have alot of roaches in the Middle East, every single day in the summer i sleep on that sound!. its sounds like: "rrrrrk rrrrrk rrrrrk"